Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive

Are you often told that you are too sensitive? Can you intuit things before they happen? Are you an introvert who cares deeply about the people and places around you?

Courtney Marchesani is the author of Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive and developer of the Highly Sensitive Gifts Test. Her insights into sensitivity help readers identify their gifts of intuition, empathy, vision, and expression to maximize their potential, while also learning how former trauma may have shaped them.

Courtney’s health and wellness coaching style focuses on holistic medicine and finding balance while living with sensitivity. Since sensitivity is closely interconnected within the nervous systems and brain functioning, it is not something to “get rid of.”

She is known for her intuitive and empathic style which emphasizes acceptance, learning how sensitivity’s silent effects can impact mental, emotional, spiritual health and wellness. Allow your sensory intelligence to shine and relish your profound ability to connect with the world by recognizing and honoring your unique gift of sensitivity.

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Show Notes

Segment 1

Today’s episode starts off with a small heartfelt story from our host Georganne about how she herself is a sensitive person. Judi agrees that she too is, as she introduces today’s guest: Courtney Marchesani. The three talk about the stigma of being sensitive and Courtney goes on how she chooses to see being sensitive as a positive. Using studies to support her beliefs, she explains how being sensitive can be a beneficial and positive trait instead. She explains about how medical professionals and school teachers are starting to become more aware about sensitivity, but there is still a lot more to learn and embrace. Sensitivity is a powerful ability to be able to feel more complex emotions to achieve more intuity and other abilities. Courtney explains why she wanted to write her book to help people with their own individual journey to understanding their sensibility and ownself. Courtney then goes on to explain in depth the four different types of sensitivity: intuition, empaths, visionaries, and expressives.

Segment 2

Coming back from break, our hosts share their MBTI personality test results and their initial reactions to their results. Courtney explains the types of sensitivities in more depth as she gives examples to help the audience understand what makes each type so unique from each other. The three talk about how their religious beliefs and personal trauma and fears relate to their type of sensitivity. Courtney uses research studies that help us understand the science behind how there are psychological changes that showed how people seemed to become more intuitive through trauma and intergenerational experiences in families. The three discuss scientific discoveries overtime has shown how our genes can be changed by trauma and show how our understanding of ourselves inside and out will continue to change and grow over time.

Segment 3

Coming back, Courtney explains how attachment to parents as children can make the children more sensitive and intuitive. The amount of attention parents give to a child and how present they are, can greatly affect a child’s sensitivity. It can be considered a form of trauma if children aren’t receiving enough attention, as they are going to be constantly searching for some sort of attachment. Courtney explains what people who are sensitive should do. They should figure out their own energy before trying to understand others’ energy. The people that someone surrounds themselves with can greatly influence their energy in both negative and positive ways. After figuring yourself out, that is when you can begin to self love and work on yourself to become more resilient. Courtney describes what sensitive vision is and how it can go beyond the physical. They end this segment with a breathing exercise that helps calm anxiety and negative emotions.

Segment 4

They start the last segment talking about paranormal activity. She explains the misconceptions that come with the word “paranormal” and explains how these activities don’t necessarily have to be like the extreme and scary ghost stories and movies. Our hosts share an out of body experience they have had and Courtney explains what had happened in the moment. Courtney shares with the audience where they can find her book, Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive, and connect and keep up with her on her website where people can take a test to see what type of sensitive they are. Courtney is available for consulting and teaches courses as well. Tonight’s episode ends in a special prayer.